What would it look like if one wanted to believe the narrative of the most destructive and most parasitic country the world has ever seen against its designated enemy targets?

Remember this country is responsible for:

• coups, assasination of leaders and electoral interference in most of the countries of the Global South
• the most direct wars
• the most proxy wars
• Military encriclement of all its designated enemies
• sanctions (half a million deaths per year as per Lancet)
• enforcing economic Shock Doctrine wherever it can
• funding and propping up fascist regimes whereever it can (remember the original 9-11 was the coup and murder against Allende)
• racketeering all over the global south if they dont bend the knee to IMF structural changes, which itself causes massive localised underdevelopment, human superexploitation, and resource extraction for US benefit. Read it as mass social murder of millions of brown folks. Every fucking year.
• colour revolutions
• propping up NGOs all over the global south to destablise them
• 700 military bases around the world to police this
• funding, arming and giving a political cover to genocide in Palestine as we speak

And more by the only country to drop nuclear bombs on civilian populations. Twice.

No other country in the history of the world comes close to the barbarism.

And that’s just outside of its borders. Let’s not get into the mass incacerations of the descendants of the slaves it built its wealth on, the ongoing mass poverty, food insecurity, the world’s most expensive police state, the mass surveillance, the child labour, the concentration camps of migrant workers, the daily lynchings by its civil society, the monthly public school masacres due to a degnerate culture of patriarchy and racism, the forcing the orginal peoples of the land to reservations where the life expectancy is 40 years, the ongoing redlining, mass medical bankruptcies etc etc.

Whereas China: https://thetricontinental.org/studies-1-socialist-construction/

Think about the people in that article^. Are they truly less free than the folks in the paragraph before the link?

Others (and I above) have given resources to links why what you said about China is wrong. The problem with that approach is you have already bought into the narrative of the US empire of its designated enemy. I instead will point you in the direction that the US empire is way way worse than even the likes of what Chomsky let’s on:

• Washington Bullets - Prashad
• Blackshirts and Reds - Parenti
• Jakharta Method - Bevins

Let’s start with where we agree with: US = bad. Then please consider reading the above 3 books. Then maybe, just maybe one day in the future there is a sliver of hope you may consider why the “neither washington nor beijing” is still very much pro-washington.

Yeah, as a westerner on the global stage I am asking you to engage in class betrayal.

Best of luck.

have confidence “in the direction the country is going.”

I too have confidence in which direction the US is going.

At this point it just feels like a flex.

Oh no, it’s going to suck the soul out of Disney.

Hi Sora, please make a Mandolarian version of Matawan and a Bugs Life version of the Battle of Algiers. Thanks

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds; applies to institutions too.

https://mronline.org/2021/02/18/role-of-ngos-in-promoting-neo-colonialism/

The west doesn’t care about the Chinese or muslims but we are supposed to believe they care about Chinese muslims. Please let me know how many countries with a minority (Uyghur muslims as the example here) population have their languages on their currency and actively promotes their culture significantly (like drawing in tourism), skyrocketing of HDI and then gets accused of whatever you are doing here.

The thing with the neither Washington nor Beijing schtick is that it is tantamount support of western atrocity propaganda; you want to believe Western lies as you have already decided on a hierarchy of human beings and denigrate those who stand against Western imperialism. If you know you have been lied to about every Western Designated Enemy since WWII but choose to believe current ones then you ain’t brainwashed, just bigoted.

Yes, very much so!

I like the transparency of fascists; it’s easier to see their sharp teeth rather than the liberals who hide them behind their claws.

Financial analyses of price predictions in the West tends to carry a similar scientific literacy as astrology.

Bust cycles are natural

I would start with an examination of that presumption (I mean that sincerely).

In some ways it is not a bubble. Because the presumption behind a bubble is that there is an acceptable baseline in capitalism. There isn’t. Bubbles popping is just the boom and bust cycles. Every boom cycle in capitalism could be considered a “bubble”; the inflation of asset prices of (fictious or otherwise) capital propped up by labour. There is not a real division between finance capital and “industrial” capital; they are two sides of the same coin (yeah Michael Hudson is wrong, good stepping stone but I have outgrown him now as an ML).

Having said that, that’s not the paradigm Nvidia is working with. The fact that he had to say it out aloud is hilarious.

Thanks for taking the time to explain!

Do you know why they decommissioned their nuclear power plants? USAmerican pressure to destablise energy independence?

It’s all just political theatre, Mamdani is going into this already having condemned Cuba and Venuzuela; he’s already capitulated the framing which means even from a liberal negotiating tactic perspective he’s on the back foot (with the assumption that it wasn’t all bluster to begin with).

Imagine an alternative where Mamdani Trump-style, even just in rhetoric, doubled down on at least giving critical support where needed and said no you need to meet me here (politically), I ain’t coming over to you because that has never worked. For me, this all smells like BS a mile off.

Critiques against Kautsky and Bernstein for all those tempted by western marxist apologism:

1. The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/

2. What is to be done: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/

3. State and Revolution: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/

The US military and their appendages have nazi and fascist tattoos because they are the US military not inspite of it. This is not an exception to the rule, this is what they are. A better question to ask is why don’t all US military personnel have nazi tattoos (aesthetics, greater loyalty to american fascist imagery than german ones etc etc). And maybe a more pertinent question is why isn’t this fact obvious to so-called western leftists; what relative class characterstics (or material conditions) of the latter group leads to this “ignorance”.

This has the additional advantage that the PRC can sell previous (relative to their latest) generation fighters and drones to allies, and they would still beat the western counterparts.

“Discourage” must be a famous anti-zionist phrase.

Socialism is at its highest when Che is on a t-shirt

Democratic (against) Socialists.

I’m guessing this is the “space created for leftists” I keep hearing about.